Teal

Teal builds a resume against a specific job posting, scores how well the draft matches it, and tracks the applications you send from one place. This page is about what that costs, what you are committed to when you pay, and what the vendor's own terms say happens to the document afterwards.

Nothing on this page ranks Teal against anything. Where a scored rival exists on this site the cards are ordered by their composites at build time; where none does, as here, there is no order to publish and none is invented.

What Teal Costs, and Why There Is No Monthly Plan

Read from the vendor's pricing page on 29 August 2026, in USD.

There is no monthly plan and no annual one. The ladder is counted in days, and the bracketed figures above are not our arithmetic: Teal prints them itself, beside each price.

For a product bought during a job search that is a coherent design rather than a quirk. Most subscriptions assume you will still be there next year. This one assumes you will be gone, and prices the shortest useful commitment at $13.

The card scores the 30-day price because it is the closest thing on that page to the monthly basis every category on this site is measured against. Calling it "monthly" anywhere else would import a billing period Teal does not sell.

Is Teal Free? What the Free Tier Actually Gives You

Yes, and more than most freemium tiers of its kind. The page calls it Free Forever and states that no credit card is required to start.

What the paid tier lifts are caps, not locks. The comparison table's own limits, verbatim: 10 resume templates against unlimited, the top 5 job-description keyword matches against unlimited, basic resume analysis against unlimited, 1 email template per job stage against unlimited, and basic design settings against advanced.

Two things that would normally appear on a freemium document tool are absent from that page, and the absence is worth as much as the caps. The word "watermark" returns nothing on it. So do "download" and "export". Nothing there says a free resume comes out marked, and nothing says it cannot leave.

The Terms answer the second half from the other direction, in section 4: "resumes can be exported individually in PDF format." No tier is attached to that sentence.

Can You Get a Refund From Teal? The Window Is Published, and It Is Short

Teal publishes a refund window per plan, dated 27 July 2026, which is the strongest position on the scale this site scores against and rarer than it should be. Read the shape of it before the number.

Every one of those is counted "of the billing period start date". On the weekly plan that is two days out of seven. Someone who signs up on a Monday, uses it through Wednesday and decides against it on Thursday is outside the window with five days of access still to run.

Two sentences travel with the policy and both are the vendor's own:

Cancelling your subscription does not automatically trigger a refund.

Submitting a refund request does not guarantee that a refund will be issued.

The first is the one that costs people money. Cancelling stops the next charge; it does nothing about the one already taken. Getting that back is a separate email to a separate address, inside the window above.

One discrepancy is worth recording rather than smoothing over: that same help article prices an "Annual Plan" with a 14-day window, and the pricing page shows no annual plan at all. Both were read on 29 August 2026.

What Teal's Terms Say About Your Resume and AI Training

This is the question a job seeker should ask first, because the document being uploaded is an employment history with real employers and real dates on it. Teal answers it in its terms rather than in a blog post, and the answer has two halves that belong together.

We do not use your personal resume content, cover letters, or other identifiable career documents to train general-purpose AI models that would be used for other customers.

We may use aggregated, de-identified usage patterns to improve our AI Features.

So identifiable career documents are excluded from training models other customers benefit from. Aggregated, de-identified usage patterns are not excluded. Both sentences are the vendor's; a page that quoted only the first would be quoting half a clause.

Ownership is unambiguous and stated in section 4: "You retain ownership of all content you create or upload to the Service." The licence back is written into the same sentence and is narrow, covering use "solely as necessary to provide, maintain, and improve the Service for you."

What makes that ownership operative rather than nominal is the export route published beside it in the same section, quoted earlier: resumes come out as PDF, at any time, with no tier attached. Owning a document you cannot take out of the building is a weaker thing than owning one you can.

Section 12 puts the defending on you: third-party claims arising from your breach of the terms, or from using the service in a way it does not authorise, are yours to answer for, and the agreement offers nothing back in the other direction. Almost every vendor agreement in this corpus reads that way, so it belongs on the card as context rather than as something held against this one.

What Teal Customers Report on Trustpilot

4.2 out of 5 across 115 reviews, read in a rendered browser on 29 August 2026 because Trustpilot refuses scripted requests.

The profile is claimed, and 57 of those 115 reviews fall inside the last twelve months, so this is a live record rather than a tail from an older product.

The sampling regime is the platform's own statement rather than our inference. Trustpilot prints "No recent history of asking for reviews" on the page, and every review rendered there carries the label "Unprompted review", with none marked as invited. That means nobody was asked, which cuts both ways: an uninvited sample is drawn from whoever felt strongly enough to write, and it is unrepresentative in both directions rather than only the unflattering one.

G2 and Capterra were not checked for this tool. That is a gap in what was read, not a finding about what is there.

Where Teal's 71.0 Comes From, and Which Row Is Not What It Says

The card was computed on 29 August 2026 across four rows, and lands in the average band.

Commercial terms is the strongest row on this card and the refund window is most of why. Ownership sits with the buyer, the export route is published, the indemnity runs the ordinary way, and a per-plan refund window is the top position on that scale.

The first row is the one that needs its warning read. Its axis is named for capability, and nothing public grades how good a resume a tool writes. That is not a gap this desk expects the market to close, because a resume is good for a particular job, read by a particular filter, on a particular day, which is not a thing a blind-vote board can measure. An arena, a benchmark and a published accuracy study were all searched for on 29 August 2026 and none exists. The row therefore carries the delivery envelope, labelled as such on the card, and it answers something smaller but checkable: pay for a week, and what leaves the product with you?

Two of that criterion's four positions could be filled here, and the rubric will not compute a cell on fewer, so the row sits on its floor exactly. What filled: PDF export, published in the terms, and the absence of any programmatic route out, which the terms confirm from an odd angle by mentioning an API once and meaning Google's rather than their own. What did not: a text document has no resolution or sample rate to publish, and on whether a free resume carries a mark the vendor's pages say neither yes nor no, which this desk records as a silence rather than converting into an answer.

One row measuring a different question is enough to change what the 71.0 is. It is not the average of four comparable readings, and setting it beside a card whose every row answers its own axis would be comparing two different constructions.

Who Teal's $29 Plan Fits, and Who Should Stay on the Free Tier

It fits someone in an active search who is tailoring a resume to each posting and wants the keyword matching and the analysis without a cap on either. Thirty days at $29 covers the shape of most searches, and the vendor's own $0.96 a day is a fair way to think about it.

Stay on the free tier if you are writing one resume rather than twenty. Ten templates and the top five keyword matches are enough to produce a document, and it exports as PDF like any other.

And whichever you pick, decide inside the refund window rather than after it. On the weekly plan that is two days from the moment you are charged, and cancelling later stops the next payment without returning the last one.